When I go up, I'll definitely check out the trails around Grand Marais and Munising.
Looks more and more like it'll be next spring tho.
Marquette county is my homeland, my dad, brother and sister can show me around.
I've gone up to visit every year our two, for 40 yrs., and still haven't done enough trail riding up there.
A little on Pop's Rokon, and an old Subaru beater wagon mostly.
My Super Sherpa should be like a duck in water in the UP. :)

Anyone who gets a chance hit Adams trail(also called m58 i believe)out of Munising and go to Grand Marais.It is the most fun you can have on a paved road.50 miles of corners.I was told it was a dirt road not long ago.Truly a great road.And not near the traffic that the dragon has.

Click to expand...

H-58 in the old days. A long dusty section of stutter bump gravel for a while. Then a fantastic sand road that stayed pretty damp and firm in the forested sections. A rolling and twisting path. Good times.

When I go up, I'll definitely check out the trails around Grand Marais and Munising.
Looks more and more like it'll be next spring tho.
Marquette county is my homeland, my dad, brother and sister can show me around.
I've gone up to visit every year our two, for 40 yrs., and still haven't done enough trail riding up there.
A little on Pop's Rokon, and an old Subaru beater wagon mostly.
My Super Sherpa should be like a duck in water in the UP. :)

Click to expand...

Great place to ride.We go there to ride the trails from the loose moose enduro often.The moon rocks are a blast.

You'll find more sand than you probably want on the Trenary based dual sport routes. However, you could ride some parts and just try to work around on a nearby road for the sandy sections.

You may be interested in some routes I have based out of Silver Lake (just to the west a bit). These are more favorable for your GS.

You might enjoy riding some of my Eastern UP track on your GS. Some of it is around Trenary.

Or, you can ride parts of the big bike version of the Upper Peninsula Adventure Trail (UPAT). The big bike version cuts out the worst of the sand.

Click to expand...

Nice thanks, will ck out. I am not a sand rider on the GS, on my KTM 200 now that is a no brainer. I have the VVmapping ORV maps on my Garmin will need to see if these are on there at all. I saved a few of those you have there.

Nice thanks, will ck out. I am not a sand rider on the GS, on my KTM 200 now that is a no brainer. I have the VVmapping ORV maps on my Garmin will need to see if these are on there at all. I saved a few of those you have there.

Click to expand...

You'll need to load the tracks onto the GPS. The vvmapping background maps are perfect for this stuff.

I finally rode the UPAT section 6 from Baraga to Big Bay then to Marquette. Tried to ride it a couple years ago with YooperBob, but I was too green and the 990 was too big for me. The 690 was perfect. Some select pics.

Below is the trail to the old quarry, still pretty deep. I went around the other way to see the quarry since I was solo didn't want to chance dropping the bike.

Pretty dry for the most part, except the Baraga Plains ORV trail, some monster puddles there.

It's been a pretty wet summer up here. Some of my usual trails between the forestville area and 510 have some huge mud puddles that would be mostly dried up by July on a normal year.

p.s. I ride out of Marquette on my new DR650 with my gf on her XT250. We've been sticking on trails close to home, mostly snowmobile trails (8 and 14) and some 2 track truck trails.

I'd like to put together a ride taking the northwestern road off AAA and heading up to the mouth of the huron river, then taking the peshekee grade or mulligan truck trail south from there. Any fellow yoopers ridden that loop?

It's been a pretty wet summer up here. Some of my usual trails between the forestville area and 510 have some huge mud puddles that would be mostly dried up by July on a normal year.

p.s. I ride out of Marquette on my new DR650 with my gf on her XT250. We've been sticking on trails close to home, mostly snowmobile trails (8 and 14) and some 2 track truck trails.

I'd like to put together a ride taking the northwestern road off AAA and heading up to the mouth of the huron river, then taking the peshekee grade or mulligan truck trail south from there. Any fellow yoopers ridden that loop?

It's been a pretty wet summer up here. Some of my usual trails between the forestville area and 510 have some huge mud puddles that would be mostly dried up by July on a normal year.

p.s. I ride out of Marquette on my new DR650 with my gf on her XT250. We've been sticking on trails close to home, mostly snowmobile trails (8 and 14) and some 2 track truck trails.

I'd like to put together a ride taking the northwestern road off AAA and heading up to the mouth of the huron river, then taking the peshekee grade or mulligan truck trail south from there. Any fellow yoopers ridden that loop?

Click to expand...

I've done some loops similar to what you're describing. When my wife and daughter and I were all riding DS bikes we'd often trailer them to Big Eric's bridge and camp there, taking day rides to the mouth, 40 foot, bald mountain, and down to 4 beers corner at the Peshekee grade. Always tried to avoid the sugar sand of the AAA road. Eventually my daughter got busy with growing up, and my wife's interest in riding dirt waned. We've since switched to touring bikes, but my last long DS ride was a solo trip from Ironwood, yhat included a loop in that area. Got on the Peshekee in L'anse, then took Dishno road east, to Wildcat Canyon and Grapevine road, past Silver Lake, out onto 510 and then a couple of the truck trails (Alder and Bushy creek are my faves), gas in Big Bay, then Northwestern road back past Big Eric's, camped south of there on Black Creek road, then back down to the Peshekee and out to 41 near Champion. Such great riding up there, makes me want another dual sport.
You really need to watch your fuel- the stock tank on my DR350 was good for 100 miles which often wasn't enough. Many times I'd have to make side trips to fuel up, which wasted a lot of time. Never did get a bigger tank, wish I had.
Enjoy the riding!
Cheers,
Dave

It's been a pretty wet summer up here. Some of my usual trails between the forestville area and 510 have some huge mud puddles that would be mostly dried up by July on a normal year.

p.s. I ride out of Marquette on my new DR650 with my gf on her XT250. We've been sticking on trails close to home, mostly snowmobile trails (8 and 14) and some 2 track truck trails.

I'd like to put together a ride taking the northwestern road off AAA and heading up to the mouth of the huron river, then taking the peshekee grade or mulligan truck trail south from there. Any fellow yoopers ridden that loop?

Click to expand...

I have a set of GPS tracks that takes that exact route. It runs along the south edge of the Huron Mountain club, and then then over to L'Aanse. The return route is a bit south of there and takes in part of the Peshekee Grade.

I have a set of GPS tracks that takes that exact route. It runs along the south edge of the Huron Mountain club, and then then over to L'Aanse. The return route is a bit south of there and takes in part of the Peshekee Grade.

Click to expand...

I don't suppose you have tracks I could upload into google maps or something like that so I could see the roads you were on? I'm fairly familiar with the northern red track I think, but there are so many trails up there it would be nice to confirm. The pink southern track intrigues me, I didn't know there was much heading east/west through that area. Thanks!